Suhas Palshikar is Co-Director of Lokniti and Professor in the department of Politics and Public Administration at the University of Pune. He taught at a degree college from 1978 to 1989, before he joined the Dept of Politics and Public Administration, University of Pune. He has been teaching courses on Political Sociology, Indian Politics, Party System in India, Political Economy of India and Political Process in Maharashtra.

He has served as Associate Director on the ICSSR project on the Sixth Lok Sabha Elections in Maharashtra from 1980-81. His research projects have included 'Politics of Marginalized Groups: A Study of Aurangabad and Ahmednagar districts' - a UGC granted project completed in 2000. In the year 1999-2000 Professor Palshikar and the Dept. of Politics and Public Administration, University of Pune conducted a survey of around 7000 households for a project on Pune titled 'Pune: From City to Metropolis', under the Special Assistance Programme. Professor Palshikar has been associated with the CSDS since 1995. He has assisted in the study of the Assembly Elections in Maharashtra in 1995 and has served as the State co-ordinator for Maharashtra in the National Election Studies in 1996, 1998 and 1999 organised by Lokniti. He is currently the Joint coordinator in the State of Democracy in the State of Democracy in South Asia (SDSA) project.

Research interests:
Professor Palshikar works mainly on Political Processes in India and Politics of Maharashtra. He is presently engaged in researching Coalition Politics in Maharashtra, as part of the project by UPIASI, Delhi, 2004-05.

Selected Publications:

Articles in Professional / Refereed journals

	Revisiting State Level Parties, Economic and Political Weekly, Vol.34, Nos. 14 &15, 2004, pp.1477-79.
	Shiv Sena: Tiger with Many Faces?, Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. 34, Nos. 14 &15, 2004, pp.1497-1507.
	From Hegemony to Convergence: Party System and Electoral Politics in the Indian States, 1952-2002, (Yogendra Yadav and Suhas Palshikar in Journal of Indian School of Political Economy, Vol. 15, Nos. 1 & 2, 2003, pp.5-44.
	Challenges Before the Congress System, (co-authored with Rajeshwari Deshpande), in Journal of Indian School of Political Economy,Vol. 15, Nos. 1 & 2, 2003, pp. 97-122.
	Triangular Competition and Bipolar Politics in Maharashtra, Economic and Political Weekly, March 30- April 5, 2002, pp.1273-1280.

Articles in Edited Volumes

	Whose Democracy Are We Talking About? Hegemony and Democracy in India, in Rajendra Vora and Suhas Palshikar (eds.), Indian Democracy: Meanings and Practices, Sage, New Delhi, 2004, pp.127-164.
	The Regional Parties and Democracy: Romantic Rendezvous or Localized Legitimation? In Ajay K. `Mehra, D.D. Khanna and Gert W. Kueck (eds.), Political Parties and Party Systems, 2003, New Delhi, Sage.
	Maharashtra: Fragmented Marathas Retain Power, first author, in Paul Wallace and Ramashray Roy (Eds.), India's 1999 Elections and 20th Century Poltics, New Delhi, 2003, Sage.
	Politics of India's Middle Classes, in Imtiaz Ahmad and Helmut Reifeld (Eds.), Middle Class Values in India and Western Europe, New Delhi, 2003, Social Science Press.
	Politics of Locality, Community and Marginalization, (Rajendra Vora and Suhas Palswhiakr) in Sujata Patel and Jim Masselos (Eds.) Bombay and Mumbai: The City in Transition, Delhi, 2003, OUP.
	Gandhi and Modernity, in S.N. Datye (ed.), Rethinking Mahatma Gandhi, Delhi, 2000, Kalinga; pp.165-176.

Authored Books

	Samkalin Bharatiya Rajkaran (Marathi), Pratima Prakashan, Pune, 2004
Edited Books
	Indian Democracy: Meanings and Practices, Sage, New Delhi, 2004 (co-edited with Rajendra Vora)
	Maharashtrache Rajakaran (Marathi), Pratima Prakashan, Pune, 2004, (co-edited with Nitin Birmal)
Monographs, Reports and Occasional Papers
	Federalism in India: Institutional Framework and the Political Context, in Continuing Dialogues towards Constitutional Reforms in Indonesia, Report of a conference held in Jakarta, Indonesia, October 2001, International IDEA, 2002, Stockholm.

Book Reviews

	India and China: Comparative Perspectives, (Review of the book edited by G. P. Dedshpande and Alka Acharya) Economic and Political Weekly, vol. 37, no. 51, Dec. 21, 2002, pp. 5099-5102.
	Review of Surinder Jodhka (ed.), Community and Identities, Journal Of Indian School of Political Economy, Jan.- March, 2002, pp.189-192.
	Review of Nalini Rajan's book in Contributions to Indian Sociology

Professor Palshikar has written over twenty articles in Marathi for journals and magazines, besides contributing to newspapers like Sakal, Maharashtra Times and Lok Satta.